
Inventing the "Great Awakening"
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The Great Awakening, however dramatic, was nevertheless unnamed until after its occurrence, and its leaders created no doctrine nor organizational structure that would result in a historical record. That lack of documentation has allowed recent scholars to suggest that the movement was "invented" by nineteenth-century historians. Some specialists even think that it was wholly constructed by succeeding generations, who retroactively linked sporadic happenings to fabricate an alleged historic development. Challenging these interpretations, Lambert nevertheless demonstrates that the Great Awakening was invented--not by historians but by eighteenth-century evangelicals who were skillful and enthusiastic religious promoters. Reporting a dramatic meeting in one location in order to encourage gatherings in other places, these men used commercial strategies and newly popular print media to build a revival--one that they also believed to be an "extraordinary work of God." They saw a special meaning in contemporary events, looking for a transatlantic pattern of revival and finding a motive for spiritual rebirth in what they viewed as a moral decline in colonial America and abroad.
By examining the texts that these preachers skillfully put together, Lambert shows how they told and retold their revival account to themselves, their followers, and their opponents. His inquiries depict revivals as cultural productions and yield fresh understandings of how believers "spread the word" with whatever technical and social methods seem the most effective.
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- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Opening Events: The "Great Awakenings" of the 1730S
- Chapter 1. " . . . that Religion may revive in this Land
- Revival Traditions
- In Such an Age as This
- Declaring the Acceptable Year of the Lord
- Chapter 2. "the first fruits of this extraordinary and mighty Work of God's Special Grace
- Revival in New Jersey
- Awakening in the Connecticut Valley
- A Faithful Narrative: The Northampton Revival as Told . . . and Retold
- Part Two: Wider Connections: An Intercolonial Great And General Awakening, 1739-1745
- Chapter 3. "imported Divinity
- George Whitefield and Revivalism in England
- We Hear From Abroad: News of the English Evangelical Revival
- Why 1739?
- Promoting Whitefield in the Colonies
- Chapter 4. The "Revival at . . .
- Local and Regional Dimensions
- Revival Narratives: A Common Script
- Chapter 5. " . . . similar facts . . . are now united": Constructing a Transatlantic Awakening
- British-American Revival Networks
- Revival Magazines: "The Progress of the Gospel in England, Wales, Scotland, and America
- Historical Connections: The Great Awakening in Salvation History
- Part Three: Contested Inventions, 1742-1745
- Chapter 6. The "grand delusion" or "great Mistakes of the present Day
- The Revival as Artifice
- Antirevivalist Message
- Antirevivalist Publications
- Chapter 7. "This is the Lord's Doing
- Apologies: Defending the Revival as the Work of God
- Polemics: Attacking Opponents of the Work of God
- Differentiation: Distinguishing the Work of God from Enthusiasm
- Epilogue. "The late Revival of Religion
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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